Love Marriage: Don't miss this heart-warming, funny and bestselling book club pick about what love really means - Softcover

Ali, Monica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034901549X ISBN 13: 9780349015491

Publisher: Virago, 2022

Synopsis

TWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE.

THE NEW INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF BRICK LANE
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'Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining' Tash Aw, Times Literary Supplement

'An utterly unputdownable exploration of modern love' Stylist

'As engrossing and enjoyable as Brick Lane' Sunday Times

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancée, fellow doctor Joe Sangster.

But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.

As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means.

Love Marriage is a story about who we are and how we love in today's Britain - with all the complications and contradictions of life, desire, marriage and family. What starts as a captivating social comedy develops into a heart-breaking and gripping story of two cultures, two families and two people trying to understand one another.


'A glorious tapestry of modern British family life' Metro

'A surefire hit' Observer

'Wildly entertaining ... a bold and generous book' Financial Times

'Big-hearted, wry and tender' Harper's Bazaar

'Absolutely terrific ... genuinely touching' Jenny Colgan, Spectator

'Gloriously readable, acute, funny and sympathetic' Daily Mail

About this title

About the Author

Monica Ali is a bestselling writer whose work has been translated into 26 languages. She is the author of five books: Brick Lane, Alentejo Blue, In the Kitchen, Untold Story and Love Marriage. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, in 2003 she was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has been nominated for, amongst others, the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and in the U.S. has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in London.

monicaali.com

From the Back Cover

'Warm, affectionate and hilarious . . . A joyous novelist at the peak of her formidable powers' DALJIT NAGRA, author of LOOK WE HAVE COMING TO DOVER!

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancé, fellow doctor Joe Sangster.

But as the wedding day draws closer and Yasmin's parents get to know Joe's firebrand feminist mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.

While Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she's also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a 'love marriage' actually means.

Love Marriage is a story about who we are and how we love in today's Britain - with all the complications and contradictions of life, desire, marriage and family. What starts as a captivating social comedy develops into a heart-breaking and gripping story of two cultures, two families and two people trying to understand one another.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034901549X
• ISBN 13: 9780349015491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512